League of Legends Patch 3.5, The Karma ReWork

The newest Patch that has recently come into play on League of Legends has changed and fixed quite alot of things. The biggest change to keep in mind this time around however is the long awaited rework of Karma. This champion has been under going a rework for a long time now so is she now playable again? Well have a look at the changes and find out:

Karma, the Enlightened One

Karma has been relaunched with updates to her model, her kit and her story. If you would like more information, you can read more here.

• Gathering Fire (Passive)o Reduce’s Mantra’s cooldown every time Karma damages an enemy with one of her abilities (Half-effect for Karma’s basic-attacks).

• Inner Flame (Q)o Fires a blast of energy that explodes upon enemy contact, dealing magic damage and slowing all enemies in the area.o Mantra Bonus – Soulflare: Deals additional magic damage and leaves a circle of flame at the impact area (or upon reaching maximum range), heavily slowing all enemies inside the circle. After a brief delay the circle erupts, dealing heavy magic damage to all enemies in the area.

• Focused Resolve (W)o Links Karma to target enemy champion, revealing them and dealing magic damage over 2 seconds. If the link is not broken, the enemy is rooted.o Mantra Bonus – Renewal: Focused Resolve deals bonus magic damage over time and heals Karma for a percent of her missing health while linked to her target.

• Inspire (E)o Target ally gains a shield, granting movement speed for a brief duration and absorbing damage.o Mantra Bonus – Defiance: The shield overflows with energy, dealing magic damage to all enemies around the shielded unit. Allied champions near the shielded unit gain half of that amount as a shield and are hasted.

• Mantra (Ultimate)o Karma empowers her next ability within 8 seconds for an additional effect.

Akali

Akali’s Twilight Shroud was behaving inconsistently before this patch, so we’ve adjusted it to better match its visual and theme, and to provide greater opportunity for counterplay.

• Twilight Shroudo Akali is now immediately stealthed/revealed upon entering/leaving the Shroud zoneo Akali is now immediately stealthed when casting Twilight Shroud directly on herselfo Akali is now revealed from stealth upon casting a spell or beginning an attack rather than upon dealing damageo Delay on re-stealthing increased by 0.15 seconds

• Focuso Now displays the Critical Strike chance bonus on the buff bar

Draven

• Spinning Axeo Now leads Draven more accurately when he is benefiting from Movement Speed increaseso Axe drop location will no longer be placed partially inside walls / terrain

Hecarim

The previous version of Spirit of Dread did not offer enough opportunities for tactical decision-making. With higher cooldowns, our goal is to reintroduce strategic choices other than merely activating the ability whenever it is available.

• Double Strikeo Double Strike swing time now scales with Master Yi’s Attack Speed instead of being fixed at 0.6 secondso Fixed a bug where the second strike of Double Strike could critically hit turrets

Riven

• Wind Slasho Fixed a bug where Riven could cast Wind Slash a second time after using Zhonya’s Hourglass

Rumble

Rumble’s ultimate was intended to be an area control effect but, with the large upfront damage it deals, it tends to be used more as a long-range nuke instead. With this patch, we’re adjusting The Equalizer to better match its original intent.

• Electro-Harpoono Fixed a bug where the visual effect would disappear before the actual end of the projectile

• The Equalizero No longer deals initial impact damage but the area burn damage now starts immediately instead of after a 0.5 second delayo Burn damage per second increased to 130/185/240 (+0.3 Ability Power) from 100/140/180 (+0.2 Ability Power) (total damage dealt across the full duration is unchanged)

Trundle

• Pillar of Filtho Fixed a bug where Pillar of Filth could stop uninterruptible movement abilities such as Malphite’s Unstoppable Force

Udyr

In this patch, we’ve made some substantial changes to Udyr. Our goals were to make changing stances feel more impactful, transfer power from passive stats to actual noticeable effects and reduce problematic lane issues. For example, Turtle Stance currently allows Udyr to become an immovable object in lane once he gets ahead, and we want to address that.

• Mana cost of all stances decreased to 47/44/41/38/35 from 55/50/45/40/35

• Bear Stanceo Udyr now ignores unit collision while the movement speed bonus is activeo Udyr now performs a slight dash toward his target on stunning attacks while the movement speed is activeo Bear stance attacks can no longer be self-interrupted mid-attacko Movement speed increased to 15/20/25/30/35% from 15/18/21/24/27%o Movement speed duration reduced to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 seconds from 2/2.5/3/3.5/4

• Phoenix Stanceo First attack after activating Phoenix Stance now immediately procs the fire cone in addition to every 3rd attacko No longer grants bonus Ability Power and Attack Damage when activatedo Ability Power ratio on the fire cone increased to 0.45 from 0.15o Updated the fire cone’s spell effect to be more visible

Warwick

• Hunter’s Callo Now displays range indicator on mouseover

• Blood Scento Now displays range indicator on minimap on mouseover

Zed

• Living Shadowo Fixed a bug where Living Shadow would sometimes cast in a random direction

• Maw of Malmortiuso Fixed a bug where the Lifeline shield was lasting for 3 seconds instead of 5

Changes to Leagues:

• Fixed an issue where it would appear that players lost LP on a win• Changed LP gain and loss calculations in Bronze V so players should experience more predictable LP gains and losses rather than seeing big swings in LP won and lost.• Slightly accelerated LP gains for teams that perform well consistently.

General

• Turrets

In Season 3, we made a few changes that made turrets feel less like a safe haven for defenders – especially in the early parts of the game. Specifically, with turrets attacking minions in a set order and some champions itemizing for health earlier on, it’s become easier for teams to push aggressively and even dive turrets with low risk. These changes should give defending players more of a fighting chance when under their own turret.

o Turrets now deal 105% damage to champions for the first attack, increased from 94.5%o Turrets now deal 25% additional damage for consecutive attacks on the same champion (max 225%), increased from 20% (max 210%)

We are fixing a bug with Teleport where its visual effect would disappear if cast on an expiring temporary unit. Teleport should always be visible to opponents who have vision of the area, much like how casting it on a non-revealed ward still displays a visual effect.

o Fixed a bug where Teleport’s “incoming” visual effect on the target unit would disappear if cast on an expiring temporary unit, such as Jarvan’s Standard or Thresh’s Lantern

• Fixed a bug where new players could not be invited to Matchmaking lobbies after teammates miss a ready check

• Smart casting with charge-up abilities should be more responsive now

• Champion Select AFK Detectiono When any player in a match-made game fails to select a champion before their timer expires, the game is terminated.o A player who fails to select a champion is given a queue dodge penalty. The dodge penalty functions exactly the same as if the player closed their PVP.net client.o Solo players who succeed in selecting a champion are returned to the front of the matchmaking queue.o Arranged teams whose members all succeed in selecting a champion are returned to the front of the matchmaking queue.o Arranged teams with one or more members who fail to select a champion are returned to the arranged team lobby.o Draft mode is handled on a pick-by-pick basis. If a player fails to pick a champion during their turn, the game is terminated immediately. Players later in the draft order, who did not have an opportunity to pick a champion, are given the benefit of the doubt and not assigned a dodge penalty.o This feature currently only applies to match made games. Custom games still assign a random champion if one is not selected.

So what do you tihnk of the newest chamnges to League of Legends? Is Karma’s rework good or bad? Be sure to leave your opinions down in the comments and be sure to keep an eye out for more League of Legends news and reviews right here on VGU.